What are the symptoms and treatment of an animal bite? Let me tell you the answer!

Any animal is aggressive, so do you know which animals especially like to bite people? What are the symptoms after being bitten by an animal? Next, let’s take a look at how to deal with common animal bites.

Symptoms of dog bites: Many families now have pets. If you are accidentally bitten by a cat, the wound will be locally swollen and painful. Severe cases can cause lymphangitis, lymphadenitis or cellulitis. If a cat becomes infected with rabies, the consequences can be more serious. Therefore, on-site emergency response must be done well.

Transportation:

1. Rinse the wound. Flush rabies virus from the wound as soon as possible. Before flushing, squeeze the wound to drain the dirty blood with venom, but never suck the dirty blood from the wound with your mouth. Because wounds bitten by cats and dogs are often small on the outside and deep on the inside, the wound needs to be opened to fully expose it and rinsed thoroughly. If the wound is deep, wash the wound repeatedly with a clean toothbrush, gauze, concentrated soapy water, and rinse with clean water in time. Brushing your teeth should last at least 30 minutes.

2. Local disinfection. After rinsing, use iodine or 75% alcohol to disinfect the inside and outside of the wound, and then cover the wound with clean gauze. No dressings, no ointments.

3. Inject rabies vaccine as soon as possible. After being bitten by an animal, a rabies vaccine should be administered as soon as possible. The sooner the better. The best time for the first vaccination is within 48 hours of the bite. The specific injection time is: one shot of vaccine is injected into each muscle on the same day, the 3rd, 7th, 14th and 30th days.

It should be noted that in addition to cats and dogs, wolves, pigs, foxes, and bats may also carry rabies. Once rabies attacks, the mortality rate is 100%. Therefore, the above treatment should be carried out immediately after being bitten.

Bee stings

Symptoms: You may be stung by poisonous bees during outdoor activities in nature with flowers and plants. Bee stings usually present as local redness, swelling and pain that disappear after a few hours. If a bee sting is left in a wound, it will become pus. If you are stung by a swarm, systemic symptoms will appear, accompanied by dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even shock, coma, or rapid death; some may have hemolytic proteinuria or even acute renal failure. Allergy sufferers can develop hives, edema, asthma, or anaphylactic shock from even a single bee sting.

Transportation:

1. If you are stung by a bee (small body), you can use a weak alkaline solution externally to neutralize the acid toxin. If you are stung by a wasp (larger in size), you need to neutralize it with a weak acid solution.

2. If the bee sting remains in the wound, use a small needle to pick it up, use tweezers or tape to remove the bee sting. Remember not to crowd (as shown in the picture above). Then disinfect the wound with alcohol and take analgesics.

3. Patients should drink more water to accelerate the excretion of toxins in urine. If the patient is allergic to the venom, he should take antihistamines.

The above is all about the symptoms and treatment methods after being bitten by an animal. I hope it can help everyone.